On Dany Heatley’s first trip back to Ottawa after the infamous trade that saw him decamp to the San Jose Sharks, Dec. 2, 2010, disgruntled Ottawa fans littered with the ice with Dany Heatley sweaters, expensive but no longer wanted. Heatley said Tuesday morning he expected the reaction to be negative again but that he [...]
About Allen Panzeri
After three years of teaching English at the University of British Columbia, Allen Panzeri began his career in journalism in 1979 at the Medicine Hat News, where he covered Kelly Hrudey and the Tigers while learning about block heaters, rodeo, and curling. In 1981, he moved north to the Edmonton Journal, where he covered boxing, the Edmonton Drillers of the North American Soccer League, and the University of Alberta Golden Bears and Pandas for four years, before taking a 10-year hiatus from sports to write editorials, cover primary, secondary, and university education, and watch the beginnings of the Ralph Klein era at the provincial legislature. Traded to the Citizen in 1995, he accepted an offer to return to sports and cover the Ottawa Lynx, lucking into a front-row seat for their 1995 International League championship, and since then has covered the Senators and typed out the occasional article on golf.
After playing centre during all of training camp and the first two regular-season games, Mika Zibanejad found himself on the right wing with Jason Spezza at centre and Colin Greening at left wing. It wasn’t a move that gave Zibanejad any reason to panic. For Djurgardens in the Swedish Elite League, Zibanejad split his time [...]
Even after playing in the rookie tournament and six pre-season games, David Rundblad says he benefitted some from watching Ottawa’s first two games of the 2011-12 season. He could see that the level of intensity is greater in the regular season, and it would be something to think about. He wouldn’t have as much time [...]
It didn’t take long for Nikita Filatov’s young career with the Ottawa Senators to hit a speed bump. After just two games, the mercurial 21-year-old Russian left wing found himself scratched from the home opener against the Minnesota Wild. It wasn’t a new feeling. He was often a healthy scratch in the three years he [...]
“Doctors told me I should watch Leafs games to avoid excitement.”
Alternate captain Sylvain Turgeon remembers opening night, Oct. 8, 1992 (as told to Allen Panzeri): “It was like flying on top of a cloud. “It was the loudest crowd I had ever heard and you could see smiles on the faces of everyone, just happy to have hockey back. “So it was energizing. But for [...]
Laurie Boschman remembers opening night, Oct. 8, 1992 (as told to Allen Panzeri): “It was pretty electric because the Civic Centre was a small building. “You could visibly sense the excitement of NHL hockey back in Ottawa. Certainly as players we really felt it, so it was pretty neat. “All of us also knew that [...]